{"id":763,"date":"2019-01-15T21:47:13","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T20:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/readerwitch.com\/?p=763"},"modified":"2019-01-15T21:47:13","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T20:47:13","slug":"a-walk-to-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/2019\/01\/15\/a-walk-to-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"A Walk To Remember by Nicholas Sparks or the book I should have never picked up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Genre: religious romance. \u2b50\ufe0fStars from Goodreads: 4.16. \u2b50\ufe0fStars from me: 3.<\/p>\n

Of course, I should have never picked up this book. The cover alone should have been enough to let me know that this is not the type of book I would enjoy because I don’t like romantic stories. Surprisingly, I ended up disliking the book for other reasons.<\/p>\n

What is the book about?<\/h2>\n

It\u2019s another teenager tragic love story. I suppose, those have been around even before Shakespeare times.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s good about the book?<\/h2>\n

The writing<\/h3>\n

The writing is absolutely fine. The style is great and perfectly conveys the voice of a teenager. I could easily imagine this boy.<\/p>\n

The setting<\/h3>\n

North Carolina little town in 1958 sounds like my Montenegro in modern days.<\/p>\n

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People waved from their cars whenever they saw someone on the street whether they knew him or not\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yes, this sounds like home.<\/p>\n

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\u2026 and the air smelled of pine, salt, and sea, a scent unique to the Carolinas.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Not unique, after all. That’s what Montenegro smells like.<\/p>\n

The first two thirds of the story<\/h3>\n

This part is dynamic and easy to follow. It’s interesting even though it is based on a clich\u00e9: a selfish rich kid with father’s issues, minister’s angelic daughter who takes care of orphans. Oh my god they are so different, we will never guess what will happen between them!<\/p>\n

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What went wrong?<\/h2>\n

Even though there was the minister’s angelic daughter I was completely unprepared to the Bible becoming a character too.<\/p>\n

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When \u201cthe Lord\u2019s plan\u201d became a centre point of the plot, and the characters started communicating via Bible verses, I felt like an intruder to a party I had never been invited to or planned to visit.<\/p>\n

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Final thoughts<\/h2>\n

A Walk to Remember<\/em> is not a badly written book. It\u2019s easy to read and it’s entertaining. It\u2019s a cute love story that can make you laugh and cry. There\u2019s also lots of Bible in it. This book is definitely not my cup of tea, but maybe it is yours.<\/p>\n

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Another one of those teenage love stories that have probably been around even before Shakespeare times Continue reading A Walk To Remember by Nicholas Sparks or the book I should have never picked up<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[53,125,140,174,256,364,418,425,486,505,562,645,684,690],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}